Political subjects and emancipation: the Laclau / Žižek debate

Authors

  • Fiorella P Russo IMESC-IDEHESI-CONICET

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/eees.v29i85.7298

Keywords:

political subjects, new critical theories, Laclau, Žižek, social classes, political subjects, new critical theories, Laclau, , Žižek, social classes

Abstract

Signed by the Marxist heritage and the crisis of the subject of emancipation of the seventies, the theoretical stakes of Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek are involved in a tense debate about the political subjects capable of transforming capitalism. The objective of this work is to detect the battle lines that the problem of the political subjects of emancipation raises in these two theoretical devices. Along this path, the authors trace different drifts: while Laclau develops a theory of the constitution of collective identities based on the notions of the people and populism; Žižek replaces the class category and argues that in the chain of anti-system struggles there is one (the class struggle) that over-determines the horizon of the rest.

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Published

2022-09-02

How to Cite

Russo, F. P. (2022). Political subjects and emancipation: the Laclau / Žižek debate. Espiral Estudios Sobre Estado Y Sociedad (eISSN: 2594-021X), 29(85). https://doi.org/10.32870/eees.v29i85.7298

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 85 (2022): Espiral 85 (septiembre-diciembre de 2022)

Section

Teoría y Debate

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